cardsharp

variants or cardsharper

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of cardsharp Always eyeing the horizon for the next easy buck, like a leering obese card sharp with an orange comb over on a steamboat chugging down the Mississippi, Trump appears unsatisfied with his crypto scams and international resort extortions. Guy Lawson, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025 And there is possibly no American actor more suited than Mr. Mays to shuffling through the dozens of players in Dickens’s celebrated tale with the ease of a cardsharp. Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022 The yarn Guimarães tells about encountering one of his idols, a storied cardsharp who could effortlessly pull off any sleight of hand necessary to tilt a high-stakes game in his favor, gets lost in the shuffle of the show’s activities. Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cardsharp
Noun
  • The plotters have agreed that a leadership committee consisting of a few high-ranking officials would take over running the country and negotiate a deal with the United States to stop the Israeli attacks.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 22 June 2025
  • According to the investigation, the coup plotters also planned to kill Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
    Gabriela Sá Pessoa, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The modern health insurer is regarded as either a knave or a pawn and is seldom regarded as a knight.
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Anyone from a Hollywood Goth to a streetwear enthusiast to your average Hollywood slickster looking for something streamlined and stylish will find something here.
    Max Berlinger, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The jive talker, the role of slang-slinging slickster, has been picked up by Slick, Junkyard Dog and the Godfather.
    Jeremy Harriot, The Root, 1 Sep. 2017
Noun
  • As Washington considered the far-reaching implications for foreign policy, the politics of the moment were equally up in the air as Democrats can’t decide whether to respond with a roar or a whimper to Donald Trump's once-in-a-generation sneak attack.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 23 June 2025
  • Israel claims its sneak attack on Iran represents a preemptive strike aimed at destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities before the country acquires an atomic bomb.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Owens once mused that he’ll probably be remembered for droopy shorts, long T-shirts and funky sneakers — among menswear designs enthusiastically embraced by hype beasts and tech entrepreneurs.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 25 June 2025
  • Style it with sneakers and a baseball cap for daytime or sandals and a tote for vacation-ready ease.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2025

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“Cardsharp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cardsharp. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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